SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE NO.
10
FROM
OKLAHOMA GAS AND
ELECTRIC
COMPANY
TO
UMB BANK, N.A.
TRUSTEE
______________
DATED AS OF DECEMBER
1, 2008
___________________________
SUPPLEMENTAL TO
INDENTURE
DATED AS OF OCTOBER
1, 1995
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Page
ARTICLE ONE
RELATION TO INDENTURE;
DEFINITIONS
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Section 1.01
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Integral Part of Indenture
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3
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Section 1.02
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(a)
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Definitions
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3
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(b)
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References to Articles and Sections
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3
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(c)
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Terms Referring to this Supplemental
Indenture
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3
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ARTICLE TWO
8.25% SENIOR NOTES, SERIES DUE
JANUARY 15,
2019
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Section 2.01
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Designation and Principal Amount
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3
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Section 2.02
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Stated Maturity Date
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3
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Section 2.03
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Interest Payment Dates
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3
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Section 2.04
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Office for Payment
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3
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Section 2.05
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Redemption Provisions
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3
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Section 2.06
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Authorized Denominations
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5
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Section 2.07
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Occurrence of Release Date
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5
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Section 2.08
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Reopening of Notes
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5
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Section 2.09
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Form of 8.25% Senior Notes, Series due
January 15, 2019
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5
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ARTICLE THREE
MISCELLANEOUS
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Section 3.01
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Recitals of fact, except as stated, are
statements of the Company
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5
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Section 3.02
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Supplemental Indenture to be construed as a part
of the Indenture
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5
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Section 3.03
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(a)
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Trust Indenture Act to control
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5
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(b)
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Severability of provisions contained in
Supplemental
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Section 3.04
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References to
either party in Supplemental Indenture include successors
or
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assigns
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5
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Section 3.05
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(a)
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Provision for execution in
counterparts
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6
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(b)
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Table of Contents and descriptive headings
of
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Articles not to affect meaning
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Exhibit A – Form of 8.25% Senior Notes,
Series due January 15, 2019
SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE No. 10, made as of
the 1st day of December, 2008 by and between OKLAHOMA GAS AND
ELECTRIC COMPANY, a corporation duly organized and existing under
the laws of the State of Oklahoma (the “Company”), and
UMB BANK, N.A., a national banking association duly organized and
existing under the laws of the United States, as trustee (the
“Trustee”):
WITNESSETH:
WHEREAS, the Company has heretofore executed and
delivered its Indenture (hereinafter referred to as the
“Indenture”), made as of October 1, 1995;
and
WHEREAS, the Company has heretofore executed and
delivered its Supplemental Indenture No. 1 dated as of October
16, 1995, adding to the covenants, conditions and agreements of the
Indenture certain additional covenants, conditions and agreements
to be observed by the Company, and creating two series of Notes
designated “7.30% Senior Notes, Series due October 15,
2025” and “6.250% Senior Notes, Series due
October 15, 2000”; and
WHEREAS, the Company has heretofore executed and
delivered its Supplemental Indenture No. 2 dated as of
July 1, 1997, adding to the covenants, conditions and
agreements of the Indenture certain additional covenants,
conditions and agreements to be observed by the Company, and
creating two series of Notes designated “6.65% Senior Notes,
Series due October 15, 2027” and “6.50% Senior
Notes, Series due July 15, 2017”; and
WHEREAS, the Company has heretofore executed and
delivered its Supplemental Indenture No. 3 dated as of
April 1, 1998, adding to the covenants, conditions and
agreements of the Indenture certain additional covenants,
conditions and agreements to be observed by the Company, and
creating a series of Notes designated “6½% Senior Notes,
Series due April 15, 2028”; and
WHEREAS, the Company has heretofore executed and
delivered its Supplemental Indenture No. 4 dated as of
October 15, 2000, adding to the covenants, conditions and
agreements of the Indenture certain additional covenants,
conditions and agreements to be observed by the Company, and
creating a series of Notes designated “7.125% Senior Notes,
Series due October 15, 2005”; and
WHEREAS, the Company, the Trustee and The Bank
of New York (the “Prior Trustee”) have heretofore
executed and delivered Supplemental Indenture No. 5 dated as
of October 24, 2001, providing for the resignation of the
Prior Trustee and the acceptance, by the Trustee, of its
appointment as trustee and the assumption of all duties and
responsibilities of the trustee under the Indenture;
and
WHEREAS, the Company has heretofore executed and
delivered its Supplemental Indenture No. 6 dated as of
August 1, 2004, adding to the covenants, conditions and
agreements of the Indenture certain additional covenants,
conditions and agreements to be observed by the Company, and
creating a series of Notes designated “6.50% Senior Notes,
Series due August 1, 2034”; and
WHEREAS, the Company has heretofore executed and
delivered its Supplemental Indenture No. 7 dated as of
January 1, 2006, adding to the covenants, conditions and
agreements of the Indenture certain additional covenants,
conditions and agreements to be observed by the Company, and
creating two series of Notes designated “5.15% Senior Notes,
Series due January 15, 2016” and “5.75% Senior Notes,
Series due January 15, 2036”; and
WHEREAS, the Company has heretofore executed and
delivered its Supplemental Indenture No. 8 dated as of
January 15, 2008, adding to the covenants, conditions and
agreements of the Indenture certain additional covenants,
conditions and agreements to be observed by the Company, and
creating a series of Notes designated “6.45% Senior Notes,
Series due February 1, 2038”; and
WHEREAS, the Company has heretofore executed and
delivered its Supplemental Indenture No. 9 dated as of
September 1, 2008, adding to the covenants, conditions and
agreements of the Indenture certain additional covenants,
conditions and agreements to be observed by the Company, and
creating a series of Notes designated “6.350% Senior Notes,
Series due September 1, 2018”; and
WHEREAS, Section 2.05 of the Indenture
provides that Notes shall be issued in series and that a Company
Order shall specify the terms of each series; and
WHEREAS, Boatmen’s First National Bank of
Oklahoma was formerly the Trustee under the Indenture and
NationsBank, N.A. succeeded Boatmen’s First National Bank of
Oklahoma as Trustee pursuant to Section 9.13 of the Indenture,
The Bank of New York subsequently succeeded Boatmen’s First
National Bank of Oklahoma as Trustee pursuant to Section 9.13
of the Indenture and UMB Bank, N.A., has subsequently succeeded The
Bank of New York as Trustee pursuant to Section 9.11 of the
Indenture; and
WHEREAS, the Company has this day delivered a
Company Order setting forth the terms of a series of Notes
designated “8.25% Senior Notes, Series due January 15,
2019” (hereinafter sometimes referred to as the “Senior
Notes due 2019”); and
WHEREAS, Section 13.01 of the Indenture
provides that the Company and the Trustee may enter into indentures
supplemental thereto for the purposes, among others, of
establishing the form of Notes or establishing or reflecting any
terms of any Note and adding to the covenants of the Company;
and
WHEREAS, the execution and delivery of this
Supplemental Indenture No. 10 (herein, “this
Supplemental Indenture”) have been duly authorized by a
resolution adopted by the Board of Directors of the
Company;
NOW, THEREFORE, THIS INDENTURE
WITNESSETH:
That in order to set forth the terms and
conditions upon which the Senior Notes due 2019 are, and are to be,
authenticated, issued and delivered, and in consideration of the
premises of the purchase and acceptance of the Senior Notes due
2019 by the Holders thereof and the sum of one dollar duly paid to
it by the Trustee at the execution of this Supplemental Indenture,
the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, the Company covenants
and agrees with the Trustee for the
equal and proportionate benefit of the
respective Holders from time to time of the Senior Notes due 2019,
as follows:
ARTICLE
ONE
RELATION TO INDENTURE;
DEFINITIONS
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Section
1.01
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This
Supplemental Indenture constitutes an integral part of the
Indenture.
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Section
1.02
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For all
purposes of this Supplemental Indenture:
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(a) Capitalized
terms used herein without definition shall have the meanings
specified in the Indenture;
(b) All
references herein to Articles and Sections, unless otherwise
specified, refer to the corresponding Articles and Sections of this
Supplemental Indenture; and
(c) The
terms “hereof,” “herein,”
“hereby,” “hereto,” “hereunder”
and “herewith” refer to this Supplemental
Indenture.
ARTICLE
TWO
8.25% SENIOR NOTES, SERIES DUE JANUARY 15,
2019
Section 2.01 There shall
be a series of Notes designated the “8.25% Senior Notes,
Series due January 15, 2019” (the “Senior Notes
due 2019”). The Senior Notes due 2019 shall be limited to
$250,000,000 aggregate principal amount except as provided in
Section 2.08 hereof.
Section 2.02 Except as
otherwise provided in Section 2.05 hereof, the principal
amount of the Senior Notes due 2019 shall be payable on the stated
maturity date of January 15, 2019.
Section 2.03 The Senior
Notes due 2019 shall be dated their date of authentication as
provided in the Indenture and shall bear interest from their date
at the rate of 8.25% per annum, payable semiannually on
January 15 and July 15 of each year, commencing
July 15, 2009. The Regular Record Dates with respect to such
January 15 and July 15 interest payment dates shall be
January 1 and July 1, respectively. Principal and
interest shall be payable to the persons and in the manner provided
in Sections 2.04 and 2.12 of the Indenture.
Section 2.04 The Senior
Notes due 2019 shall be payable at the corporate trust office of
the Trustee and at the offices of such paying agents as the Company
may appoint by Company Order in the future.
Section 2.05 The Company,
at its option, may redeem on any date all or, from time to time,
any part of the Senior Notes due 2019, upon notice as provided in
the Indenture, at a redemption price equal to the greater of
(i) 100% of the principal amount of such Senior Notes due 2019
to be redeemed and (ii) the sum of the present values of the
remaining scheduled payments of principal and interest thereon (not
including any portion of such payments of interest accrued to the
date of redemption) discounted to the date of redemption on a
semiannual basis (assuming a 360-day year consisting of twelve
30-day months) at the Treasury Rate plus 50 basis points, plus
in each case accrued and unpaid interest thereon to the date of
redemption.
“Treasury Rate” means, with respect
to any redemption date (i) the yield, under the heading which
represents the average for the immediately preceding week,
appearing in the most recently published statistical release
designated “H.15(519)” or any successor publication
which is published weekly by the Board of Governors of the Federal
Reserve System and which establishes yields on actively traded U.S.
Treasury securities adjusted to constant maturity under the caption
“Treasury Constant Maturities,” for the maturity
corresponding to the Comparable Treasury Issue (if no maturity is
within three months before or after the Remaining Life (as defined
below), yields for the two published maturities most closely
corresponding to the Comparable Treasury Issue will be determined
and the Treasury Rate will be interpolated or extrapolated from
such yields on a straight line basis, rounding to the nearest
month) or (ii) if such release (or any successor release) is
not published during the week preceding the calculation date or
does not contain such yields, the rate per annum equal to the
semiannual equivalent yield to maturity of the Comparable Treasury
Issue, calculated using a price for the Comparable Treasury Issue
(expressed as a percentage of its principal amount) equal to the
Comparable Treasury Price for such redemption date. The Treasury
Rate will be calculated on the third business day preceding the
date fixed for redemption.
“Comparable Treasury Issue” means
the U.S. Treasury security selected by an Independent Investment
Banker as having a maturity comparable to the remaining term
(“Remaining Life”) of the Senior Notes due 2019 to be
redeemed that would be utilized, at the time of selection and in
accordance with customary financial practice, in pricing new issues
of corporate debt securities of comparable maturity to the
remaining term of such Senior Notes due 2019.
“Comparable Treasury Price” means
(1) the average of five Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations
for such redemption date, after excluding the highest and lowest
Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations, or (2) if the
Independent Investment Banker obtains fewer than four such
Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations, the average of all such
quotations.
“Independent Investment Banker”
means either Mizuho Securities USA Inc., Greenwich Capital Markets,
Inc., UBS Securities LLC or another independent investment banking
institution of national standing appointed by the
Company.
“Reference Treasury Dealer” means
(1) each of Greenwich Capital Markets, Inc., Mizuho Securities
USA Inc. and UBS Securities LLC or their respective successors, and
any other primary U.S. government securities dealer in the United
States (a “Primary Treasury Dealer”) selected by
Greenwich Capital Markets, Inc., Mizuho Securities USA Inc. or UBS
Securities LLC or their respective successors, provided, however,
that if any of the foregoing ceases to be a Primary Treasury
Dealer, the Company will substitute therefor another Primary
Treasury Dealer and (2) any other Primary Treasury Dealer selected
by the Company after consultation with the Independent Investment
Banker.
“Reference Treasury Dealer
Quotations” means, with respect to each Reference Treasury
Dealer and any redemption date, the average, as determined by the
Independent Investment Banker, of the bid and asked prices for the
Comparable Treasury Issue (expressed in each case as a percentage
of its principal amount) quoted in writing to the Independent
Investment Banker at 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on the third
business day preceding such redemption date.
The Senior Notes due 2019 shall not be subject
to any sinking fund.
Section 2.06 The Senior
Notes due 2019 shall be issued in fully registered form without
coupons in a minimum denomination of $2,000 and multiples of $1,000
in excess thereof.
Section 2.07 The Release
Date (as defined in the Indenture) occurred on April 6, 1998.
Accordingly, the Senior Notes due 2019 shall be issued as unsecured
general obligations of the Company. The Senior Notes due 2019, and
all other Notes issued or to be issued under the Indenture, will
not be secured by First Mortgage Bonds of the Company and will not
be entitled to the lien of or the benefits provided by the First
Mortgage, which has been extinguished.
Section 2.08 The Senior
Notes due 2019 may be reopened and additional notes of the Senior
Notes due 2019 may be issued in excess of the limitation set forth
in Section 2.01, provided that such additional notes will
contain the same terms (including the maturity date and interest
payment terms) as the othe